The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03

and that it may reach the sum of s., 600
or So 600. Chamberlain is of good
| family. his father being superintendent
of the Rock Island railroad. Chamber
lain was arrested and held in bonds of
So, 900.
| MICHIGAN FIRE.
| DETROIT, MICH, Jan. 31.-A special
to the Evening Journal from Stignace
says: AT Mackinac island last night
while the mercury was so below zero,
fire broke out in TrJiScott' s saloon. The
| flames spread rapidly and in a few
minutes the Carson house. Mackinac
House, Dominick MuTay's general
store, Siegfried Highstone's general
store and William p. Preston's saloon
and Justice shop were mass of flame.
There is no fire protection at the island
and nothing was saved. The guests at
the Mackinac house barely escaped with
their lives. No insurance, loss $780,
600.
a STAY OF EXECUTION.
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 31.-The supreme
court at Jefferson City, Mo-, to-day
granted a stay of execution until April
1St next to III. NJ. Brooks, alias W. H.
L. Maxwell, and the Chinese highbind-
ers, pending an appeal for new trial.
The execution was to have taken place
next Thursday.
CASE CONTINUED.
The case of Fotheringham, the
Adams express messenger, accused of
being an accessory to the noted Jim
Cummings" train robbery, was to-day
continued in the criminal court until
to-day:
BOODLER o'NEILL's CASE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-The defense
of eX-Alderman John O'Neill was coll
tinued to-day before. Judge Barrett in
the court of Oyer and Terminer.
Joseph III. Steiner, member of the
Tammany general committee, OF which
Mclaughlin was chairman, testified to
the meetings of the committee being
held at McLaughlin's house, owing to
the illness of Mclaughlin. In May and
June 1884 witness was a nightly
visitor there. He never saw
any aldermen there. Defendant John
NELL was then put on the stand. He
said he was alderman from 1882 till the
first of the present month, served as
chairman of the finance committee, was
member of the sinking fund COM
mittee from 1888 to 1886. First knew
Fullgraff when he became alderman in
1884, knew Duffy in the board the year
before, never knew anything about
combine" meetings at Fullgraff's or
Mclaughlin s, buG had heard q rumor
that there was combine. Never attend
ed any meetings at Fullgraff's OF Nc
helghen'S, was never at Mclaughlin s
on Thirty-fourth street for any purpose.
Point by point the testimony of Full
graft and Duffy affecting OMEN was
taken up and denied positively. Wit
ness said the first he heard of the morn
ing meeting of August so, was when a
messenger from the board came into his
place of business. He said he had a
call for meeting and asked me to sign
it. ] asked him what it was for as l
signed it, and he said it was for nine
O'Clock next morning and hurried out.
There was nothing singular in his ac-
ton, only he seemed in a hurry. He
did not know what was the purpse of
the meeting until he reached the hall.
Then it was said the injunction had
been removed.
FIRE NEAR LARNED.
NICHOLSON, kaS.. Jan. 3I.-The
dwelling house and all of the out-build-
ings of Miles o 'Rourke, owned by the
O'Rourke Bros. of this city, situated
four miles from Larned, burned to the
ground yesterday. Cause, defective
tiue. Loss $1,000. No insurance.